In this game, you can…

• …get messages from a folder the game creates on your desktop, then open and edit its .txt/.htm/.config files to solve puzzles.
• …have the game open browser tabs and videos, create files, and fake blue-screen-like events as part of progression.
• …lose the shift key mid-chase, forcing you to keep running while the game removes a basic control option.

In this game, you can…

• …receive a letter from your dead wife, then meet a woman who looks and sounds exactly like her by the lake.
• …turn off the entire UI and read your condition from blood on your coat, how you move, and even the inventory's color cues.
• …replay to unlock multiple endings, including a famously absurd dog ending that changes the whole final reveal.

In this game, you can…

• …get sudden retro minigames where you control Freddy to give gifts, then give life, and end up stuffing kids into animatronic suits.
• …sit in one office chair with no doors, swapping between cameras, a flashlight, and a Freddy mask to keep animatronics from walking in.
• …watch Balloon Boy slip in and disable your lights and flashlight, cutting off your main defenses at the worst possible time.

In this game, you can…

• …avoid looking at monsters because staring at them triggers panic, so you survive on quick glimpses and peripheral movement.
• …hide in darkness to avoid being seen, then watch your sanity drain until the world distorts and you can collapse.
• …follow notes you wrote to yourself before erasing your own memory, including orders to go deeper and kill Alexander.

In this game, you can…

• …deal with zombies who keep weird routines, like singing, cleaning, turning off lights, or getting mad if you "make a mess."
• …collect blood from zombies to craft a formula, then inject it to stop certain enemies from mutating into something worse.
• …parry a missile with a hatchet, then keep moving like nothing happened.

In this game, you can…

• …swing across the skyline with a grappling hook that opens up entirely new routes.
• …outrun night hunters, flash an ultraviolet light to buy seconds, then hide in a pipe until the chase ends.
• …dropkick enemies off rooftops so they ragdoll down six-story drops.

In this game, you can…

• …detach a burning section of your submarine, then put the fire out and re-dock the module.
• …befriend a diver in voice chat, steal his headset, cuff him, and leave him in the abyss while the sub can't hear him scream.
• …load an explosive railgun shot that tears your own hull open and forces emergency rerouting to drain flooded compartments.

In this game, you can…

• …get your arm cut off with a chainsaw, then have it stapled back on.
• …step into a videotape, play through what happened, then use what you learned back in the present.
• …jump into DLC that turns you into Joe Baker and lets you box monsters with your bare hands.

In this game, you can…

• …raise a mutant rat baby until it can talk, then watch it grow into a rat man who becomes your friend.
• …give up an arm to protect a mutant baby, then keep caring for it back at your apartment.
• …feed a colony of roaches TV dinners until they form a gestalt insect consciousness.